Through station | |
Bellheim station, looking towards Wörth with the two platforms and the former entrance building
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Location | Bahnhofstr. 8, Bellheim, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany |
Coordinates | 49°11′18″N 8°17′40″E / 49.188278°N 8.294556°ECoordinates: 49°11′18″N 8°17′40″E / 49.188278°N 8.294556°E |
Line(s) | Schifferstadt–Wörth (33.0 km) |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | 476 |
DS100 code | RBLH |
IBNR | 8000863 |
Category | 6 |
Website | www.bahnhof.de |
History | |
Opened | 25 June 1876 |
Bellheim station is a station in the town of Bellheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as a category 6 station and it has two platform tracks. The station is located in the network of the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (Karlsruhe Transport Association, KVV) and belongs to fare zone 575. Since 2001, the station has also been part of the area where the fares of the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (Karlsruhe Transport Association, KVV) are accepted at a transitional rate. The address of the station is Bahnhofstraße 8.
It is located on the Schifferstadt–Wörth railway and was opened on 25 July 1876 with the commissioning of the Germersheim–Wörth section of that railway. It is now classified as a Haltepunkt (halt). Since late 2010 it has been part of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn. Since a new halt was opened at the same time, it is sometimes called Bellheim Bahnhof (Bellheim station), including in the recorded announcements of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn.
The station is located on the south-eastern outskirts of Bellheim.
Originally the administration of the Circle of the Rhine (Rheinkreis), which was part of Bavaria, planned that its first railway line would be first in the north-south direction from Rheinschanze via Lauterbourg to Strasbourg, which would compete with the Mannheim–Basel railway proposed by Baden. However, instead it was decided to build the Palatine Ludwig Railway (Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn, Ludwigshafen–Bexbach), which was opened in the period from 1847 to 1849. In the meantime, discussions took place as to whether a line from Neustadt via Landau to Wissembourg or a line along the Rhine via Speyer, Germersheim and Wörth was more urgent and desirable. Since the military preferred a route on the edge of the Palatinate Forest (Pfälzerwald), this was built in the form of the Maximilian Railway between Neustadt and Wissembourg.